Aristocrat on bike almost three times drink-drive limit

A German aristocrat is to stand trial accused of driving a motorised bicycle through the streets of St Andrews while almost three times the drink drive limit.

Florian von Gemmingen-Hornberg - who is listed as a baron on German genealogical websites and whose family history dates back to the middle ages - faces a charge over an incident on April 9.

Gemmingen-Hornberg, who is studying a Masters in Economics and Philosophy at the town’s university, is alleged to have driven an “unregistered motor vehicle” - understood to be a bicycle adapted to run with a motor - in the town’s City Road.

Prosecutors say he had 64 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The limit is 22.

Von Gemmingen-Hornberg is also alleged to have no insurance and not have been wearing a protective helmet at the time of the incident.